Sunday, December 8, 2013

Week of Dec 9-13, 2013

Language Arts
Question of the week: How can creative thinking solve a problem?
Reading: compare and contrast, antonyms, expression
Story of the Week: Anansi Goes Fishing
Writing: Friendly letters
Conventions: verbs for past, present, and future
Phonics: compound words
Spelling Words: basketball, someone, weekend, something, birthday, riverbank, bathtub, backyard, driveway, bedtime, raindrop, mailbox

Math
-identifying coins and coin equivalencies
-combining coins to equal 50 cents
-understanding tens and ones place
-solving problems about tens and ones
-counting by tens, fives, and twos
-adding ten to any  number